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Prohibition in the United States (view source)
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==The Prohibition Party Today==
==The Prohibition Party Today==
The Prohibition Party has continued to sponsor candidates for office. The party divided in 2003 over dissatisfaction with party leader Earl F. Dodge Jr. The smaller faction held its national convention in Dodge's living room and nominated him for a sixth time. This faction appeared on the ballot only in [[Colorado]] and received 140 votes. The larger faction of the party, called the Webb faction, nominated Gene C. Amondson for President. Amondson ran as the Prohibition nominee in [[Louisiana]], where he won 1,566 votes, and in Colorado under the "Concerns of People" Party, receiving 378 votes.<ref>"[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=37927 Gene Amondson political biography at Our Campaigns.com. Retrieved 9/20/2007].</ref> Amondson received the most votes for a Prohibition Party nominee since 1988 and was the first Prohibition Presidential nominee to outpoll all other third party candidates in any county since 1960.<ref>Authors unnamed, "[http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-09-prohibition-feud_x.htm Battle brewing for teetotaler vote in Colorado]," ''USA Today'', Gannett Co., Inc., September 9, 2004. Retrieved April 26, 2007.</ref>
The Prohibition Party has continued to sponsor candidates for office. The party divided in 2003 over dissatisfaction with party leader Earl F. Dodge Jr. The smaller faction held its national convention in Dodge's living room and nominated him for a sixth time. This faction appeared on the ballot only in [[Colorado]] and received 140 votes. The larger faction of the party, called the Webb faction, nominated Gene C. Amondson for President. Amondson ran as the Prohibition nominee in [[Louisiana]], where he won 1,566 votes, and in Colorado under the "Concerns of People" Party, receiving 378 votes.<ref>"[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=37927 Gene Amondson political biography at Our Campaigns.com. Retrieved 9/20/2007].</ref> Amondson received the most votes for a Prohibition Party nominee since 1988 and was the first Prohibition Presidential nominee to outpoll all other third party candidates in any county since 1960.<ref>Authors unnamed, "[http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-09-prohibition-feud_x.htm Battle brewing for teetotaler vote in Colorado]," ''USA Today'', Gannett Co., Inc., September 9, 2004. Retrieved April 26, 2007.</ref>
==Bibliography==
* Bader, Robert Smith. ''Prohibition in Kansas'' (1986),
* Blocker, Jack S. ''American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform'' (1989)
* Blocker, Jack S. ''Retreat from Reform: The Prohibition Movement in the United States, 1890–1913'' (1976)
* Blocker, Jack S. ed. ''Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia'' (2 vol 2003)
* Bordin, Ruth. ''Woman and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900'' 1981
* Cherrington, Ernest, ed., ''Standard Encyclopaedia of the Alcohol Problem'' 6 volumes (1925-1930), comprehensive international coverage to late 1920s
* Clark; Norman H. ''Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition.'' 1976. supports prohibition
* Dannenbaum, Jed. "The Origins of Temperance Activism and Militancy among American Women", ''Journal of Social History'' vol. 14 (1981): 235-36.
* Dannenbaum, Jed. ''Drink and Disorder: Temperance Reform in Cincinnati from the Washingtonian Revival to the WCTU.'' (1984). 245 pp.
* Gusfield, Joseph R. "Social Structure and Moral Reform: A Study of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union," ''American Journal of Sociology'' 61,No.3 (1955).
* Pegram, Thomas R. ''Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800–1933'' (1998).
* Timberlake, James H. ''Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920''. 1963.
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[[Category:Prohibition]]
[[Category:Gilded Age]]
== References ==
== References ==